Which do you think is preferred? Download, or mp3 player started? It seems nice to start the player as kind of a preview, and then if the person wants to download it, they can go back and right click → save as.
Would think preferred is a preview player next to the download button on the same page, no right-click-as- and history-back-action (for example most mac users even don’t know there is a right-click-action - they only have one button by default).
Lots of interesting content, that’s really great. Responsive, too.
But frankly, I don’t really enjoy to look at a wall of tables with text. OTOH, on the photos page, there are huge pics almost exclusively.
How about you make thumbnails from those pictures (cropping to a detail, not simply resizing them), all exactly the same size (say, 100x100px)
then put them alongside your tracks timeline? Or maybe you could colour code your tracks according to software. Or use logos.
The photos I’d organize more like a gallery, clickable, equally sized thumbnails for an overview, leading to bigger versions (but not too big).
You know, something more for the eyes? I like your avatar, and I believe (not sure right now) you once mentioned you created it yourself - maybe you could spice your website up with your own visual arts? Not too much pictures of course, keep it clean, but with some visual accent here and there.
Anyways, as said before, great content, and that’s what’s most important. 
Would think preferred is a preview player next to the download button on the same page, no right-click-as- and history-back-action (for example most mac users even don’t know there is a right-click-action - they only have one button by default).
OK. Appreciate this feedback. I’ll work on this.
You know, something more for the eyes? I like your avatar, and I believe (not sure right now) you once mentioned you created it yourself - maybe you could spice your website up with your own visual arts? Not too much pictures of course, keep it clean, but with some visual accent here and there.
Yeah I did create my avatar. Sorta. I took a picture from an old public domain book and did some photo editing stuff on it to make it green and blocky.
Good idea to spice it up with some art. At least a banner or something. Yeah! I’ll do it.
How much do you charge?
Hey, no offense Eatme, this is just meant as constructive criticism - it’s nice of you to offer to help out with small presentation minisites like this, but that example page is not very mobile-friendly (not responsive design), and I don’t really see the point of this when Soundcloud itself offers about the same content fields and features like in the example.
Maybe you should consider to expand your template a bit to include a couple of subpages or whatever, so that the site offers visitors something that Soundcloud doesn’t?
I don’t really see the point of this when Soundcloud itself offers about the same content fields and features like in the example.
Don’t agree with this. You could have said the same thing years ago about Myspace and look where it ended up now. Besides it’s not like you have to pick between your personal website and Soundcloud. Just a thought…
Don’t agree with this. You could have said the same thing years ago about Myspace and look where it ended up now. Besides it’s not like you have to pick between your personal website and Soundcloud. Just a thought…
This is my argument against people using Tumblr or Facebook for their “homepage”. You’re just a squatter on someone else’s land, and at any time the landlord can decide to kick you off or shut you down or reuse your work or do any number things you agreed to in their ever-changing TOS.
Use these places to drive traffic back to a domain you control.
I have have my work on MySpace, Wordpress, SoundCloud, Vimeo, ReverbNation, YouTube, and so on. They all point back to my own domain, which has all of my content (typically as embeds from these other sites).
If any of those sites goes away or pulls some shit my own site just adapts and goes on.
of course, having your own domain and site is a very good thing - but then the site should offer something that makes the visitors want to come back, something more than an iframe with content from Soundcloud. And these days a non-responsive / non-mobile friendly site just won’t cut it. IMHO
OK can someone check this out and see what you think?
http://organicio.altervista.org/
Look at 2014. I added a player for each song on the homepage, and changed the links to download when you left click instead of playing inside the browser.
I think it’s more functional. But does it look too cluttered? The reason I had to add the extra space between the description and the player is the little “time” tab was getting too close to the text. I tried adding it on the same line but it was too wide.
I’ll probably prefer functional and cluttered over unfunctional. But just wanted to get some feedback?
Thanks!
Why not make a column “actions” for a play and a download button, and move the audio player to a fixed over-layer (for example as a bottom bar), so even after scrolling, you would have control over audio playback of the selected song.
10 or 20 years ago this could be a question requiring much thought, nowadays setting up one of thousands Wordpress themes to choose from is such a painless task, prices per gb of transfer have gone way down and there are so many hosting options available that it is definitely worth it! Even if nobody knows you nor cares about your music, personal homepage is sort of a shrine where one can go, close the doors behind him, smoke some opium and indulge in a bottomless self-indulgent intimate trance… ok maybe without the opium part!
If anyone is looking for a free hosting, frihost.org is the best of them - even though it’s free it still performs much better than majority of cheap hosting options. However, I haven’t used it for a year or two so I don’t know if the quality is still there. Also, there is a process of writing 5 (I think) posts and then submitting hosting request for approval before the hosting is set up, it can take a week or two but it’s definitely worth it. At least it was.
Domains are cheap to buy but usually around twice as expensive to renew every year. Still, it’s nice to have that extra personal touch even if just for tickles and if the domain is short and potentially valuable, that’s an extra incentive for renewing it.
If Facebook would be smarter, they could really hit the domain market by bringing more personalized pages… for a price, something like more automated Wordpress with tighter quality control, full compatibility, fewer customization options and included hosting/DNS. They said Facebook was the death of website forums and yet here we are, all those years later. As long as services like Facebook will not have enough customization options for users/companies/projects to fill the crave for uniqueness in most people, personal websites will always exist and be in demand and always worth thinking about making one for yourself as an artist of any caliber for sure 
You can’t put naked lady on your facebook page, and - as we all know - this is essential feature to have on your website
Of course that’s essential, but webspace providers have a TOS, too. Better check before they shut down your website, or charge you like a porn site, LOL.
So probably the serious pro musician might be better off using no-ip and hosting stuff at home. 
Interestingly, I began working with my homepage right before this topic appeared and I introduced it later in june:http://www.chrisedberg.com
It’s responsive and all, but at the moment it’s very basic and doesn’t contain that much music.
I agree with what some have already said, it’s always a good idea to have your own little corner in cyberspace no matter the alternatives like Facebook, Soundcloud and all the rest. I’d rather see those as complements to your own site.
This is mine, i like to play, when i have time, with html5 and php for fun :
I am building a music website since last month. Where I will upload only my favorite songs. The website is almost complete. I willdefinitely show you.
Er, bandcamp is still there
